RE: difference between FTP and SFTP

Thanks Chas.
You got it correct. I do want the client using SFTP to download files from
server.
Thanks again for ur help as I have completed that assignment :).


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-----Original Message-----
From: Chas. Owens [mailto:chas.owens@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 5:57 PM
To: Rajnikant
Cc: beginners@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: difference between FTP and SFTP

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:30 AM, Rajnikant
<rajnikant_jachak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi everyone,

I have question about SFTP's connection modes. FTP can use Active or
Passive mode for same.

Is SFTP also supports such modes?
snip

Active vs passive has to do whether both the server and the client make
connections (active aka original) or only the client makes connections
(passive). In the SFTP protocol only the client initiates connections, so
you can think of SFTP as always being in passive mode.

You might want to read more about how active and passive modes work
here: http://slacksite.com/other/ftp.html.

This question and the others you have asked lead me to believe you want an
FTP client, but want the connection to be secure. SFTP is not your only
choice. You can also use FTPS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTPS. FTPS is FTP tunneled over SSL.
There is even a Perl module for it
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-FTPSSL/FTPSSL.pm.

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